Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York upcoming events

Tour of the Peter J. Cohen Collection (Wednesday, April 08, 2026)

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Image courtesy of the Peter J. Cohen Collection

Title: Tour of the Peter J. Cohen Collection

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 at 4 PM

Duration: 1.5 hours

Capacity: 12

Admission: Free! (Open to A.R.T. Members & Non-Members)

Location: 55 E. 11th Street, Apt. 2 New York, NY 10003

Join Archivists Round Table for a visit to the Peter J. Cohen Collection, which houses over 100,000 photographs, encompassing many different processes and formats, including gelatin silver prints, cyanotypes, hand-tinted photos, chromogenic color prints, Polaroids, real photo postcards, and complete photo albums. The staff at the archive will give a brief introduction to the collection, and then allow for ample browsing time through the many boxes of photographs.

This is an in-person event limited to 12 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.

In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.

How to find the Peter J. Cohen Collection

The Peter J. Cohen Collection is located at 55 E. 11th Street, in Manhattan, between Broadway and University Pl. The location is a short walk from the 4, 5, 6, N, R, Q, or L train at Union Square.

Meeting location

Attendees will meet inside the entrance of the building.

About

Peter J. Cohen is a New York-based collector of snapshots and vernacular photographs. Spanning the late 19th century to the 1980s, the Peter J. Cohen Collection (PJCC) is one of the largest privately held collections of “anonymous” photographs in the U.S. Material from the PJCC has been donated to and featured in exhibitions at over 60 major art institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Morgan Library, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria & Albert, and The Rijks. Located in downtown New York, the collection is accessible by appointment.

The PJCC currently houses over 100,000 photographs, encompassing many different processes and formats, including gelatin silver prints, cyanotypes, hand-tinted photos, chromogenic color prints, Polaroids, real photo postcards, and complete photo albums. The archive is organized into around 130 categories (and counting.) The breadth of these categories is testament both to Cohen’s extensive collecting interests and to the highly diverse nature of anonymous photography. Taken for the most part by amateurs and ordinary people, these photographs offer a highly unique look into a wide range of social moments, cultural practices, and relationships to image-making.

For more information, and for a comprehensive list of institutions that have photographs from the PJCC, please visit their website.

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Woodman Family Foundation Archive Visit (Thursday, April 09, 2026)

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:45:00 GMT

Betty Woodman and Francesca Woodman at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 1971. © Woodman Family Foundation Archives.

Title: Woodman Family Foundation Archive Visit

When: Thursday, April 9, 2026, 2:45 PM (Tour will begin promptly at 3:00 PM)

Duration: 1 hour

Capacity: 20

Cost: Free! (ART Members and Non-Members)

Location: 119 W 23rd Street, Suite 909 New York, NY 10011

Join us for a behind-the-scenes visit to the Woodman Family Foundation. The Woodman Family Foundation stewards the artwork and legacies of three artists: Betty Woodman (1930 – 2018), sculptor and ceramicist; Francesca Woodman (1958 – 1981), photographer; and George Woodman (1932 – 2017), painter and photographer.

The Woodman Family Foundation archives contain a range of materials related to all three artists’ work and lives, including personal and professional correspondence, notebooks, published and unpublished writings, notes, sketches, personal photographs, artwork documentation images, digital materials, studio materials and more. A.R.T. attendees will have the opportunity to see a selection of materials from each of our three artists, including examples of ways in which these distinct collections intersect and offer insights into their shared influences and relationships.

This is an in-person event limited to 20 people. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.

In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.

Arrival information: Gather in the hallway outside of suite 909 of 119 W 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011.

ABOUT

The Woodman Family Foundation was established by Betty Woodman (1930–2018) and George Woodman (1932–2017) during their lifetimes. Love of beauty was at the heart of their lives and art. In this spirit, the Foundation is dedicated to stewarding the artistic legacies of Betty, George, and their daughter, Francesca Woodman (1958–1981). It maintains a substantial collection of artworks by each artist from all periods and media, organizes museum and gallery exhibitions and publications of their work, and facilitates the placement of their works in public collections. The Foundation places their artworks in public collections and makes grants. The Foundation is also undertaking the preservation and cataloguing of their extensive archives to make this information accessible for scholarly study.

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Tour of the Intrepid Museum: Collections Storage and Sick Bay (Wednesday, April 15, 2026)

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:45:00 GMT

Collection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of James R. “Jim” Pelham. P2014.112.01

Title: Tour of the Intrepid Museum: Collections Storage and Sick Bay

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM (Tour promptly begins at 3:00 PM)

Capacity: 24

Duration: 2 hours

Admission: Free! (ART Members only)

Location: Pier 86, W 46th St, New York, NY 10036

Join us for a tour of the Intrepid Museum’s Collections Storage and Second Deck. The Intrepid Museum will welcome ART members to this behind-the-scenes tour to see and talk about the benefits and challenges of having artifacts and archives on a decommissioned aircraft carrier. Intrepid’s Second Deck is currently closed to the public, but will eventually be partially restored and opened. This tour of Second Deck, led by Intrepid’s Head Curator, will bring visitors to this unrestored space that housed several spaces, including Intrepid’s Sick Bay or hospital space, the Post Office, and the Barber Shop.

This is an in-person event limited to 24 A.R.T. members only. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event. In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.

How to find the Intrepid Museum

The Intrepid is located at Pier 86, W 46th St, New York, NY 10036, just West of the West Side Highway. Visitors can take the C train to 50th St or an M train to 47th 50th St and transfer to a bus across town, or walk to 12th Ave.

Meeting location

We would ask participants to plan to arrive to the Museum at 2:45PM. They can pick up a ticket at the Museum’s Will Call desk in the Welcome Center and will be directed into the ship/museum to meet near the Information Desk in Hangar 1. Tours will begin promptly at 3 PM so plan to come to the Museum in advance.

About

Founded in 1982 with the acquisition of the storied WWII aircraft carrier Intrepid—a National Historic Landmark and the centerpiece of its collection—the Museum welcomes over one million visitors annually from all around the world. Its mission is to promote the awareness and understanding of history, science and service through bold and immersive collections, exhibitions and programming in order to honor our heroes, educate the public and inspire future generations. Find more information about the Intrepid here.

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New York Transit Museum Tour (Friday, April 24, 2026)

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum

Title: New York Transit Museum Tour

Date & Time: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM (Tour begins promptly at 3:15 PM)

Duration: 1.5 hours

Capacity: 20

Admission: Free! (ART Members only)

Location: 99 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn, NY 11201

Join us for a tour of the New York Transit Museum—from an archivist’s POV! Come for a behind-the-scenes chat at the museum with Collections Department staff as we tour current exhibits and talk about the joys and challenges of managing a collection that ranges from full-sized vintage subway cars to dime-sized tokens.

This is an in-person event limited to 20 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.

How to find the New York Transit Museum

The Transit Museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, reachable by over 20 bus and subway lines; the nearest subway stations are Hoyt-Schermerhorn, Jay Street-Metrotech, and Borough Hall. The museum's main entrance is at the corner of Schermerhorn Street and Boerum Place.

Meeting location

The tour will meet and begin at the lobby inside the main entrance, which is down two flights of stairs. A wheelchair-accessible entrance is located on the corner of Schermerhorn and Court Streets.

About

Founded in 1976, the New York Transit Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of New York’s mass transportation—from groundbreaking engineering feats and the labor of workers who carved tunnels over a century ago, to the communities transformed by transit and the ever-evolving technology, design, and ridership of a system that runs 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

Located underground in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn, the Museum’s platform level spans a full city block and features a rotating selection of twenty vintage subway and elevated cars, some dating back to 1904.

Visitors can board our historic train cars, sit behind the wheel of a city bus, walk through a century of turnstile design, and explore changing exhibitions that illuminate the cultural, social, and technological past—and future—of mass transit.

Learn more at https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/

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